CVE-2023-4294 (GCVE-0-2023-4294)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-09-11 19:46
Modified
2025-05-02 17:40
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
Summary
The URL Shortify WordPress plugin before 1.7.6 does not properly escape the value of the referer header, thus allowing an unauthenticated attacker to inject malicious javascript that will trigger in the plugins admin panel with statistics of the created short link.
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Vendor Product Version
Unknown URL Shortify Affected: 0 , < 1.7.6 (custom)
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